A/HRC/RES/39/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 October 2018
Original: English
Human Rights Council
Thirty-ninth session
10–28 September 2018
Agenda item 8
Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council
on 28 September 2018
39/17.
National human rights institutions
The Human Rights Council,
Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and
recalling the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Vienna Declaration and
Programme of Action, and other relevant instruments,
Reaffirming that all human rights are universal, indivisible, interrelated,
interdependent and mutually reinforcing and that all human rights must be treated in a fair
and equal manner, on the same footing and with the same emphasis,
Recalling all relevant resolutions of the Human Rights Council, the General
Assembly and the Commission on Human Rights on national institutions for the promotion
and protection of human rights, including most recently Council resolution 33/15 of 29
September 2016 and Assembly resolution 72/181 of 19 December 2017,
Recalling also General Assembly resolution 70/1 of 25 September 2015, entitled
“Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, in which the
Assembly adopted the outcome document of the United Nations summit for the adoption of
the post-2015 development agenda and pledged that no one would be left behind,
Recalling further General Assembly resolution 69/313 of 27 July 2015 on the Addis
Ababa Action Agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for
Development, which is an integral part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,
Recalling that the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is guided by the
purposes and principles of the Charter, grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, international human rights treaties, the United Nations Millennium Declaration and
the 2005 World Summit Outcome, and informed by other instruments, such as the
Declaration on the Right to Development, and recognizing, inter alia, the need to build
peaceful, just and inclusive societies that provide equal access to justice and are based on
respect for all human rights, effective rule of law and good governance at all levels and
transparent, effective and accountable institutions,
Welcoming the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme
of Action, and reaffirming its statement of the important and constructive role played by
national human rights institutions, in particular in their advisory capacity to the competent
authorities, and their role in preventing, remedying and assisting victims to find remedies to
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